A young boy enters a barber shop and the barber whispers to his customer, 'This is the dumbest kid in the world. Watch while I prove it to you.'

The barber puts a dollar bill in one hand and two quarters in the other, then calls the boy over and asks, 'Which do you want, son?'

The boy takes the quarters and leaves.

'What did I tell you?' said the barber. 'That kid never learns!'

Later, when the customer leaves, he sees the same young boy coming out of the ice cream store.

'Hey, son! May I ask you a question? Why did you take the quarters instead of the dollar bill?'

The boy licked his cone and replied, 'Because the day I take the dollar, the game's over!' 

A young couple moved into a new neighborhood.

One morning while they are eating breakfast, the young woman sees her neighbor hanging the wash outside.

"That laundry is not very clean," she said. "She doesn't know how to wash correctly.  Perhaps she needs better laundry soap."

Her husband looked on, but remained silent.

Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, the young woman would make the same critical comments.

About a month later, the woman was surprised to see a nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband: "Look, she has learned how to wash correctly.  I wonder who taught her this?"

The husband said, "I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows."

Sin has a way of never staying hidden... very long. Try as we may to keep it out of sight, it has a way of leaking... seeping into the open. We can't contain it. It refuses to be held captive. It has a voracious appetite for more. Sin is like a mushroom, when you keep it in the dark and spread lots of manure around, it only grows. And as a fungus, only spreads to other areas.

The real problem is, we sin against God and then we assume He, the God who eposed the darkness to all His glory in creation, will somehow not expose our darkness. It is in his nature to expose the darkness to light.

Walking in the light is the only real solution to "hidden" sin. The best part of confession is the comfort and healing that comes with it.

His forgiveness and healing grace are available to any and all who choose to walk in the light.

1JOHN 1:9

But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.

JAMES 5:16

Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.

If you cover, God will expose... If you expose, God will cover!

“There is no teaching to compare with example”

Lord Baden Powell

(founder of the scouting movement)

Don’t put your confidence in powerful people; there is no help for you there. When they breathe their last, they return to the earth, and all their plans die with them.

Psalm 146:3-4

We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love.

1John 4:16

I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. Ask God to help them; intercede on their behalf, and give thanks for them. Pray this way for kings (presidents) and all who are in authority so that we can live peaceful and quiet lives marked by godliness and dignity. This is good and pleases God our Savior who wants everyone to be saved and to understand the truth.

1Timothy 2:1-3

Blessings on our new president elect: Barack Hussein Obama.

Oh God, give him wisdom, discernment, knowledge, understanding, insight.

I speak blessings on him as he begins to choose who will walk beside him in these next four years. Give him peace as he leads our country. Father God, grant him peace in and on his administration.

Draw him to you as he will need your grace to lead America in these days. May we be a United States.

This is what the Lord says: “Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans, who rely on human strength and turn their hearts away from the Lord.

They are like stunted shrubs in the desert, with no hope for the future. They will live in the barren wilderness, in an uninhabited salty land.

“But blessed are those who trust in the Lord and have made the Lord their hope and confidence.

They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit.

Jerimiah 17:5-8